She did it though, the child shrank from her as from some torturing fiend.

This mother resolved that she would do the same,--though her child, too, should learn to hate her.
William Bolton undertook to go out to Folking and give the invitation by which she was to be allured to come to Puritan Grange,--only for a day and night if longer absence was objectionable; only for a morning visit, if no more could be achieved.

It was all treachery and falsehood;--a doing of certain evil that possible good might come from it.

'She will hate me for ever, but yet it ought to be done,' said William Bolton; who was a good man, an excellent husband and father, and regarded in his own profession as an honourable trustworthy man.
'She will never stay,' the old man said to his wife, when the others had gone and they two were left together.
'I don't know.' 'I am sure she will never stay.' 'I will try.' Mrs.Robert said the same thing when the scheme was explained to her.
'Do you think anybody could keep me a prisoner against my will,--unless they locked me up in a cell?
Do you think I would not scream ?' The husband endeavoured to explain that the screaming might depend on the causes which had produced the coercion.

'I think you would scream, and scream till you were let loose, if the person locking you up had nothing to justify him.